The Field “The More That I Do”

A new track from The Field, the first from his forthcoming Yesterday and Today LP, called “The More That I Do,” is available in downloadable form. Predictably, it’s good. But a different kind of good than the icy winds of From Here We Go Sublime: it’s still based around a fat rhythm bed, clipped vocal samples, and oh-so-rewarding shifts in pitch that hit you hard, even though you see them coming from a mile away. But “More” is glittery and disco-friendly where Sublime was mostly tundra-conjuring. I know I’m starting to repeat myself here, but that break at the 3-minute mark, yeah, that’s significantly “My Girls”ish.

But that’s not the best part. At the end of 07, I got the chance to write about Sublime as the ninth-best album of the year, and made reference to “10-minute epic ‘The Deal’,” which “floats an ethereal Elisabeth Fraser-sounding vocal over the softest, slightest rhythmic variations.” Looks like Willner’s gone and done me one better on “More”: after that break at 3 minutes, he shifts the piece perfectly, and loops in a huge sample of the ever-lovely “Lorelei” (particularly Fraser’s vocal at about 2 minutes into the original). I probably don’t need to over-emphasize how appropriate I feel this is.

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